>FWIW, I have never tried this because it doesn't make any sense to me, for the same reasons that ActiveDocuments don't make sense: If your browser application requires components to be installed on the client machine, what is the advantage to using a browser interface at all? Why not build a VFP interface?

I understand your reasoning here and it may prove necessary to do that.

However, the issues for me are that:

1) the client would like this to be implemented thru the ( Intranet ) web;
2) we are dealing with 100's of machines here, pre-installing a small DLL control on all of them is relatively simple and straightforward here by running a script when they log into the domain, installing VFP and/or VB runtimes is a bit more involved ( but will be done if needed )
3) I need this particular functionality ( i.e. automatically retrieving user info ) for security reasons to preclude abuse and so must have some kind of control to implement it if we indeed continue on this path

Bill